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By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch They still make laptop commercials? Apparently so, and stylish ones at that. “Everything you want in a notebook,” the narrator intones, as a slinky, possibly Icelandic model experiences all the Acer Aspire 5920G has to offer: a “holographic 3D finish,” “opalesque contours,” and “Enlightener media flow.” (No, I have…
The obviously named Solar House Number Display & Mailbox will not only help guests find your home in the dark, but it keeps your mail and newspaper snug, too. The box drinks in solar rays during the day, and when evening comes, it automatically triggers the LED backlighting, lasting for up to 10 hours. Just…
If you thought those colorful Dell notebooks we showed you the other day were attractive, check out the models Dell picked out to sashay around with the laptops in Korea. Those gals really know how to stand up straight, don’t they? We hear the women showing off the equipment in New York had equally good…
This week at Uncrate: We relive the glory days of baseball cards with the Rated Rookie T-Shirt, turn all our keys into one thanks to the Keyport Slide, and humiliate our friends by making them sit in the Easy Dunker. We then make our escape in the Escapade Pedal Boat, get some rest in the…
Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report gives us his spin on the upcoming Transformers movie, as only he can. Can’t trust any of these trannies? If you like that, watch until the end and you’ll get his take on the iPhone, too.
GE’s upcoming 2008 Profile refrigerators will have a second freezer tray for double the freezing. Finally you can keep the meats and sweets away from your wife’s creepy fruit. The upper drawer is slim and looks like it will hold meals better on plates and trays and the like, while the deeper lower drawer will…
These YG Acoustics Voyager speakers scale new heights in the audio snobbery stratosphere, commanding $100,000 just to be in their presence. But wait a minute, they’re not even for sale to the bourgeois masses such as you and me—you have to be a music and film “industry leader” to pick up a pair. For the…
Greg Packer enjoys attention. He sits in lines for all sorts of events just so the media will ask his boring opinion on things and he can read about himself in newspapers. You like publicity, Packer? I’ll give you some goddamned publicity. It’s time for another Gizmodo Photoshop Contest. Your task: put Greg Packer in…
If you have a Scientific Atlanta 8300 or 8300HD digital video recorder, Western Digital’s My Library Video Edition makes it easy for you to add 500GB of disk space by just plugging it into the DVR’s eSATA interface on the back. Looking suspiciously like Western Digital’s My Book drives, this external drive has been tested…
Today Logitech is showing off two new 2-megapixel $100 QuickCam Pro models, one for desktops (that is, made to sit atop a desktop LCD) and another one for laptops. The big news is that they are the only webcams equipped with the Carl Zeiss lenses that made the Sony Cyber-shot line so popular. Also in…
No more fumbling around for a lighter with the brand new Solopipe, the self-lighting pipe that lets you put your weed in its bowl, slide the lid over it, and then you can carry around your own personal mobile smoking station right there in your pocket. Open up the lid on that bowl, pull the…
Following its pretty-boy multicolored notebooks released earlier this week, Dell brought out the big gun of its laptop line today, showing us its Dell Precision M4300 Mobile Workstation with Intel’s latest Santa Rosa chipset. Built in exactly the same form factor as its predecessor that it replaces, the M65, the M4300 offers a faster 64-bit…
Today, Sprint announced that it would start selling the RIM BlackBerry 8830 worldphone next month. If you recall, this is the BlackBerry that has both a CDMA radio for domestic calling and EV-DO data, and a SIM slot for GSM service—and the sluggier GPRS data—abroad. The difference between Sprint’s 8830 and the one Verizon launched…
Apple has declared that everyone on line on Friday will be allowed two iPhones, presumably for loved ones or eBay. And btw, Apple will stay open til Midnight. Midnight. maybe it’s a clarification of Friday store hours, maybe it’s a chance for Apple’s retail division to remind the world about the “legendary Genius Bar support,…
Those of you who feel that your car’s Sat-Nav system is lacking something need to move to Korea. Or import iNavi’s latest baby, the G1. As well as having a screen that can show off everything from buildings to mountains in glorious 3D, there is a geomagnetic sensor to stop you getting lost when the…
Finally breaking a worrying pattern of no iPhone news for the last five minutes, NYC-area man Mr. David Pogue has declared that the iPhone has a black plastic part on its back. “That’s where the antenna is,” he said. “Cellphone signals have a hard time going through metal, which is why this one piece is…
The hurricane season cometh, and the DH1 Disaster House is one man’s solution to the problem of homelessness—only problem is that it costs and arm and a leg—and that is usually not an option if you have lost everything to one of Nature’s bad moods. Designed by Californian architect Gregg Fleishman, the DH1 comes in…
MIOpup is Sega/Tiger Electronics’ new robotic puppy after the iDog. This Jetsons-looking cheap AIBO-wannabe looks really cute and ready to hump Hello Kitty’s leg at any time. If you can call Her Catness’ white blobs legs, that is. And if this thing can hump at all.* So what can MIOpup do for you? A demo…
4D Cities is software that allows you to reconstruct cities analyzing data from a stack of old photographs. It also allows you to travel through the fourth dimension without a flux capacitator, showing buildings as they rise and fall in time. It has been developed by Frank Dellaert and Grant Schindler, from the Georgia Institute…
USA Today’s Ed Baig and Jeff Graham have done their own video review of the iPhone. And it—er… it’s—let’s just say it makes Ed Wood look like Scorsese, although Jeff’s Hawaian number beats Ed’s angora sweater. Oh, dear, judge for yourselves. iPhone Review – USA TODAY’s Ed Baig & Jefferson Graham [You Tube]
